Here read a summary of and commentary on Edgar Allan Poe's famous tale, "The Cask of Amontillado." Commentary provides analysis of the story's irony, foreshadowing, and puns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of the conflict, foreshadowing, and setting you will find in a plot.

In this activity, students will consider the context within which Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. The poem immediately captured the public imagination, where it has remained, testimony to heroic failure,...

Known as the "Financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris played a critical role in winning and securing American independence. As chairman of the Continental Congress's Finance Committee between 1775 and 1778, Morris traded flour and...

In an act that foreshadowed the American rebellions to come, read this short account of how Benjamin Edwards rode into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and proclaimed himself the ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.

In A.D. 793, eleven-year-old Jack leaves his family farm to become an apprentice to the Bard, a druid from Ireland, who is assigned to his Saxon village. At first, he is unsure of his duties, and is puzzled when the Bard experiences a...

For this task, students are presented with a table and a graph and are asked to summarize the data and report the findings of a project by the Environmental Protection Agency to contain the effects of an invasive species on a fish...

The attack by a group of Islamic fundamentalists announced the growing threat of terrorism on US soil. Eighteen minutes after noon on February 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the basement parking garage below the north tower of the World...

This lesson focuses on the vocabulary terms to describe the writing for the period of American Realism and is followed by an interactice crossword puzzle using the vocabulary.

This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...

This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.

The beginning of winter is foreshadowed here by a light dusting of snow called Termination Dust by Alaskans.

A test with five matching questions and 4 multiple choice questions over the following literary terms: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.

Race against the clock while matching each literary text term with its definition. Terms include: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.

Eight flashcards on literary terms including: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.

A test with eleven multiple choice questions on plot terms including: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.

Race against the clock to match each story element with its definition. Terms include: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.

Eleven flashcards on the elements of a story including: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.

This site offers a basic understanding of the elements of a story. It clearly defines each literary term.

Selected (7) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two migrant workers trying to stay employed and out of trouble. Their dream of having their own farm may be...

Anne Frank's diary provides a first-person account of the struggles an adolescent girl faces as her family hides from the Nazis within the terrifying setting of an overcrowded annex. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair...

Fagus Factory in Alfeld is a 10-building complex - began around 1910 to the design of Walter Gropius, which is a landmark in the development of modern architecture and industrial design. Serving all stages of manufacture, storage and...

Pindar, though the contemporary of Simonides, was considerably his junior. He was born either at, or in the neighborhood of Thebes in Baeotia, about the year 522 B.C. Later writers tell us that his future glory as a poet was miraculously...

The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."